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pandemic that started at the same time as well as adaptation during the project to Spaces show by example the benefits of
as construction. An integrated design the new realities of the health crisis. a design combining quality, aesthetics,
working method, in close collaboration and sensitivity for the principles of user
with customers and a team of local Future and resiliency health and wellness. This concept based
suppliers, also facilitated the integration The new Sodexo Montréal office and on flexibility and generosity of space has
of the principles of health and well-being, its unique concept of Quality of Life proven to be particularly resilient in the
face of the unexpected challenges brought
by the pandemic. As such, the project
represents for its designers an excellent
case study for the workspace of the future.
A future more human, healthy, efficient,
and sustainable, which reintroduces into
our corporate spaces the importance
of social character combined with the
comfort and simplicity of the home. dw
Technical Sheet
• Project: Sodexo Montréal offices
• Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
• Client: Sodexo Canada
• Architects/designers: L’Abri + Vives St-
Laurent
• Contractor: Modulor
• Project team: Nicolas Lapierre,
Laurence Vives, Pia Hocheneder,
Vincent Pasquier, Lysanne St-Laurent,
Francis Martel-Labrecque, Julien
Latour, Sébastien Dion
• Collaborators: Möbel, Herman-Miller,
Hay, EDP, Teknion, API, Couper-
croiser, Planteca
• Photographer: Raphaël Thibodeau
www.labri.ca/project/sodexo/
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